Reverse Progesterone Testing

What is it and how can it help me or my veterinary surgeon?

Just as Progesterone testing pinpoints ovulation and subsequently when to mate it is also useful to monitor its level as it needs to stay elevated to sustain a pregnancy, it also falls to end a pregnancy and trigger whelping.

Testing can be important during pregnancy if previous failure to carry a litter full term suggests there was an early fall in progesterone, monitoring this hormone can give warning to a premature fall and time for you and your veterinary surgeon to intervene to keep the progesterone level elevated with medication.

In some cases when there is uncertainty on whether a bitch is in labour and whelping is imminent or where there is doubt on timing of a C-Section reverse progesterone testing is a valuable tool as the hormone progesterone falls to a certain level around the time puppies are ready to be born.

A breeders worst nightmare is often “Single Puppy Syndrome” this state of only carrying a single fetus sees a much higher incidence of pregnancy failure and also Primary Inertia” a condition where a bitch fails to go into productive labour and expel the puppy, too often breeders are told by their veterinary surgeon to go home and wait for nature to take its course but this can sometimes lead to loss of the puppy (or puppies) if the progesterone level has already fallen and the bitch has failed to whelp,if in doubt Reverse Progesterone Testing can be beneficial in knowing when to intervene.

What Our Customers Say

Can I start by saying, these four little beauties would not exist if it wasn't for Anne Morley.
We had so many complications and changes of plan to enable us to use the stud dog in Southern Ireland that we had selected. Nothing was straight forwards and to make matters worse the time schedules were as tight as a corset! But Anne stuck with us and was able to advise us on the best day to mate our bitch, with enough notice for us to book and get on a ferry. Anne's knowledge, availability and accuracy are second to none and we cannot thank her enough!

Rebecca Roberts

Cannot thank Anne enough!
Norma missed last time using a different progesterone testing clinic and I was very worried that she would miss again but thanks to Michael Neachell I was advised to use Anne Morley
Norma now has a litter of eight , healthy puppies on the ground.
I shall be using her every time from now.
Thank you. x

Hayley Jo Brambles

We would like to say a big thank you to Anne and Andy. We had previously mated our bitch with no success. We heard about Canine Progesterone Blood Testing through a friend. We had the full works – blood testing, semen testing, assisted mating and scanning. The timing was spot on, Anne saw 5 puppies on the scan and we had 5 puppies on the date she predicted. Anne was very accommodating and fitted us in at a time to suit us on each of our visits. Many thanks, we can’t recommend you highly enough.

Just a quick message of thanks to Anne & Andy for all there professional Help and advice in the making of theses pups below!!
After my bitch missed the year before I’m now converted to Progesterone Blood Testing with Anne’s Expertise in advising on what day to have your bitch mated!! Once mated I returned to Anne after 26 days for a scan which she advised on a large litter of 11!! Yesterday my bitch had 11 healthy pups!!

Pups were not due until the 4th April!! Once again Anne’s advice & experience was that my bitch would have her pups early and to be watched from the 24th March again she was right!! You can’t put a price on advice from a seasoned Professional in her field of work!!who’s services I would totally recommend to anyone looking to breed from there bitch!!! A 10/10 service from start to finish. Thank you once again.

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Having been actively involved in showing since the late 70’s and involved with breeders since the late 80’s we realize that not everything runs smoothly in the world of “dog breeding”, the services offered are aimed to assist you with that process.

We are available 7 days a week & in the event of emergency scanning, 24hrs a day. All services offered are completely confidential.